Chalene is ready to be your around-the-clock virtual life coach. Did you know that when Chalene was attending law school, she exercised before and after classes? That’s some serious fitness! She will get you healthy, get you motivated, and change how you think about friends and family. With over 100 million DVDs sold, Chalene Johnson is the #1 female in direct marketing and supplements her entire income through passive social streams. But she’s no lazy gal. Check her our today!

Lewis Howes has seen it all. From nearly achieving professional football fame, to hitting rock-bottom after an injury left him hopeless and broke. Howes found an outlet for marketing and helping others through podcast streaming. He is dedicated to helping find success. Howes co-wrote the networking book, LinkedWorking: Generating Success on the World’s Largest Professional Networking Website in 2009. For some seriously all-American motivation, listen in to Lewis’ tips!

Get rid of your clothes. Get rid of your heirlooms. Get rid of your big, comfortable house. This is the mantra of the Minimalists, two friends who decided to sacrifice lives of luxury in pursuit of a simple existence. Minimalists focus on creating room for less material objects and clutter in exchange for more of the things they love, more experience, more passion, and ultimately, more freedom. Tune in to see how Joshua and Ryan have made it work.

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]]>Build Yourself UPhttp://sabrinalloydagencies.org/build-yourself-up/
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:11:24 +0000http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/?p=126It’s March Madness – that means it’s time to get fired up! What gets you fired up? Is it the drive to do better, or does failure make you want to work harder?

One thing is certain though, don’t get upset for the wrong reasons! Failures exist to help you to keep progressing, not defeat you. Your rhetoric determines how you will approach failure. So, build yourself up before thinking about breaking yourself down. That goes for others as well because you communicate to others who you are without letting negativity get the better of you. Remember, by being secure of yourself, you will never feel the need to break yourself or others down.

When I ask if are you fired up, do you really understand what I mean? Firing yourself up doesn’t mean getting upset at yourself or others. Firing yourself up doesn’t mean blaming others or to find comfort for your own failures. Firing yourself up means getting up and preparing for round two in the ring. If you see that you are not progressing in the way that you’d like, know that you need to work on yourself.

Evaluate.

Adapt.

Change your approach.

Once you look yourself in the mirror and start fresh, you are ready to rebuild yourself and push back at your obstacles.

In order to do this, it’s imperative that you not let other people’s words affect your state of mind. Don’t let these distractions destroy you and your goals. Shake off words people throw at you, and make it a point to do and become better. In the age of the internet everyone has become so much more vocal. Make sure that the voices you hear are there to build you up, not break you down. When you feel the world is against you, its easy to replicate those sentiments onto others. Be secure about yourself, and let those who are insecure squabble amongst themselves.

Now, the internet can be a blessing, but it can also be a destructive force. We already discussed draining out its negativity from your life, but how can you use it to improve yourself. Use the internet and social media to build yourself and others up. Social media provides an important microphone for you to spread your message. Build yourself up, build your brand, and build those around you up in the same way. Builders are patient, builders have a vision, builders are successful.

Finally, focus on what you already have, not on what you don’t have. Opportunity arise but they are not what determine success. How you work with those opportunities, or with what you already have determines success. Always remember that YOU are more powerful than you understand yourself to be. Leave YOUR footprint on the world.

Take inventory of yourself and get fired up for success!

If you found this post helpful and would like to continue to get motivated, check out my twitter @SabrinaLloydSGA for more. Thanks for reading!

]]>Preparing for the Futurehttp://sabrinalloydagencies.org/preparing-for-the-future/
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:09:29 +0000http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/?p=121How can you prepare for the future?

Think about the ones you love.

No, really think about them.

Who are the people you need in your life to support you?

Who makes you a better person?

Who influences your decisions when you wake up every morning and leave your house?

You are important. You make an impact on your community and the world as a whole.

This is why everyone should consider life insurance to protect the people they love.

Consider the video below an inspiration for how to approach life insurance as a personal choice. Take time to think about your personal relationships. You are more than a fleeting blip in the universe. Your influence is critical to the network of people you have met and will trickle down for generations to come. You have the power to protect them.

Performance depends on more than just physical ability and expertise. It also requires a great deal of mental toughness. The ability to be mentally prepared to carry out your goals, whether they are competitive or personal, plays a tremendous role in the overall outcome of your performance. Training and competing for events requires strong mental strength and prowess that can only be reached with time, and effort. If you’re looking to break away from normal, and hope to achieve your goals and dreams, you have to start training your mind NOW!

As a life coach, I wouldn’t be able to help any of you without my own degree of mental toughness. In this blog, I’ll cover some tips and tricks used by Olympic athletes that’ll help you become mentally tough and ready to face your challenges and weaknesses. The Huffington post recently covered some tips that athletes use to tune out distractions, reduce stress and anxiety, and build the focus and stamina needed to develop a strong mental foundation. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be an athlete to practice mental strength; these tips and tricks can be used in all aspects of your life.

1. Control the voice in your head through daily meditation

No, we’re not advocating for you to talk to yourself in public, just in private. The voice in your head, or your inner monologue, can sometimes create fear and self-doubt before taking on major tasks. Make an effort to control the rhetoric you give to yourself, ensuring that it’s positive and constructive, rather than negative and defeating. Instructional or motivational self-speak can give you a serious advantage over others who are self-defeating, despite their talents or experiences. Keep in mind what famous sports psychologist Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis had to say: “The mind guides action. If we succeed in regulating our thoughts, than this can guide our behavior.”

A great method to tune out distractions and clear your mind from all of the extra baggage weighing you down is meditating. This technique helps you build mental strength and focus. Everyone knows the benefits of doing yoga and meditation, as they’re exercises that help both the physical being, as well as the conscious one. More and more today, athletes are practicing meditative techniques before major competitions and events. Meditation can improve an individual’s mental game by reducing stress, increasing attention and focus, and promoting emotional well-being.

2. Visualization

The third technique athletes use to mentally prepare for a competition is visualization. Visualization is seeing yourself competing, hurdle by hurdle, and finally winning your race. You have to imagine yourself on the podium, but you must also see yourself doing everything correctly in order to get there. This helps you, the individual, become more comfortable and familiar with the challenges ahead, allowing you to build mental strength through experience and stamina.

3. Find your Flow

As the article in the Huffington Post would define, flow is “a mental state in which the individual transcends conscious thought and achieves a heightened state of effortless and unwavering concentration, calm and confidence”. Without much thinking, over-thinking, strategy, or doubt, athletes can find their “zone” and perform, or outperform without much effort. Confidence is your own abilities is key to finding your zone, and controlling the message you are sending. Flow comes from within, and can have the capability of omitting itself externally onto others. The mechanical nature of flow can make anything easy, whether it’s reading, writing, cooking, exercising, or even learning. Learn to find your flow, and you will always perform to outperform.

These techniques can all help you find the chinks in your armor, and address the weaknesses in your own mental game. Imagine picking yourself back up after a failure or a struggle, and continuing on with the task at hand. This is mental toughness at it’s finest. By visualizing your goals, controlling the voice in your head, and finding your flow, you will surely break down any mental barriers that come your way. Check my blog for more info on how to stay mentally tough and achieve your goals.

]]>You are Your Own Business: Adapthttp://sabrinalloydagencies.org/you-are-your-own-business-adapt/
Tue, 01 Dec 2015 19:55:38 +0000http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/?p=60Newsflash: If you don’t change, you will be replaced.

The clock is ticking, and what are you doing about it? As we approach the end of the year, take some time to seriously reflect about yourself. Take your lists of all the people and all the reasons why you aren’t where you want to be. Replace those lists with ONE reason – YOU.

You have a major question to ask yourself today. How would the world be different if you didn’t exist? Are you working to make a difference or are you just getting by? You have to thrive.

If you are not changing, growing, adapting, with the world, you will fail. You will fail to stay relevant in our quickly changing world. Say goodbye to “If I had more I would. When I get more I will!” If it was about resources, billion dollar companies that have thrived and failed would still exist.

You have to think of yourself as a small business or a startup with an entrepreneurial spirit that has to adapt to change. What are you doing with your access to information and opportunities?

There are rules that we need to be successful in business and we can think of our personal lives as a business. Think about marketing. Do you market yourself?

It’s not about you – it’s about everything around you.

Everything you do – eat, sleep, walk, breathe – needs to indicate what you tolerate.

What and who is around you defines your standards of business. Majority does rule. Don’t become just average. Sometimes, it’s better to be alone until you get your skills to a better, higher, place. Who do you need to jettison? Who do you need to FIRE in the business of your personal life? Don’t become the lowest common denominator in your group.

Be the authority. Be with people who are excited, relevant, and also looking to get better and blessed. If you are so blessed to be surrounded by people who are always seeking to get better, seek to take care of these people so they don’t stop inspiring you.

You will get rolled over by someone more relevant and marketable than you if you can’t change with the times.

]]>Get into the Boxing Ringhttp://sabrinalloydagencies.org/get-into-the-boxing-ring/
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:17:46 +0000http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/?p=51Why do we Soldier up on Sunday? When everyone else is sleeping the day away, this is when you can train yourself for success. When everyone else is relaxing and watching television, you can prepare yourself for dedicated, hard work. People fail in life because they get caught off guard. I look up to the sport of boxing for inspiration of how to prepare not only for my professional life, but personal struggles.

Muhammed Ali was a fighter.

Muhammad Ali

He got into the ring and did battle. When he was in the ring, the audience saw his sweat and exasperation for ten, fifteen, thirty, even forty-five minutes. Just like the rest of us in our work and personal lives, no one sees the hard work Muhammed Ali dedicated to his sport. But if the best fighters did not prepare for battle, they would never be successful. You have to prepare yourself for battle. This is true not only for boxers, but for the rest of us. We are all soldiers in life.

In life, no one sees how hard you have prepared. Are you prepared for the lights, camera, action, so you can come out winning? Are you going to be a CHUMP or a CHAMPION? It’s easy to simply exist through life. But to be a true soldier, you have to thrive. This is why we have to practice one, two, even three times a day to defend ourselves against the checks life throws at us. You have to train. You have to be committed.

Just like real soldiers, training is mentally and physically demanding. You have to get support and preparation for battle in four areas.

Mind

Physical

Support system

Defense against failure

Training the mind and body goes together. The mind has to be strong for the body to be strong, and vice versa. Your support system implies who you’re fighting for, why your fighting for them, and if their supportive of you in return.

The last component is critical to your growth. Failure is why we prepare for success. No one wants to fail, so preparing yourself with the skills to defend against life’s obstacles helps us understand our fears. This is personal.

Through preparation and skill, you can defend yourself against any failure and be as successful in your life as Muhammed Ali was in the ring.

]]>Transforming Hate into Positivityhttp://sabrinalloydagencies.org/transforming-hate-into-positivity/
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:06:58 +0000http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/?p=47“Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet.”

This is one of my favorite quotes from Maya Angelou. So many people go through their day unhappy and hateful. When things go wrong in our lives, we like to find a scapegoat. Hatred affects situations as benign as teenagers blaming their parents for not buying them stylish new clothes. But the inability for people to forgive affects global issues as well, if you consider distrust and conflicts between nations that have existed centuries. You can hate one person, but you may hate a whole group of people. This balance affects our whole society.

Hate is a powerful emotion. It creates a distaste for your surroundings. When you hate your fellow humans, your brain will feel confused about how its supposed to engage with the rest of the world. Refusing to forge paths of trust and forgiveness alienates you.

Think of our human society as a huge fortress. Individuals live behind colossal, concrete walls formed on prejudice and hatred. You have the power to destroy that wall using the power of positivity. You have the power to initiate connections through forgiveness, support, and gratitude. Instead of an impenetrable fortress, we will create a nurturing home.

When you commit to seeing the world with a positive outlook, hate can transform into love and gratitude. Remember my advice: If you don’t have anything nice to say, zip it! Further, if you don’t have anything nice to say, think about something nice to say. Fill your life with nice people and nice moments. Kindness acts as a formidable defense against hate. Energized to affect the world with hope and happiness, people infused with positivity will be the ones who solve the world’s problems.

If you’re struggling to combat a negative attitude, start small. Turn to a stranger while waiting in line at the supermarket and ask them how their day is going. Buy an unsolicited gift for your spouse. Volunteer in your local community. Getting through life is challenging! It’s easy to get bogged down by your personal and professional life and their daily stresses. But avoid hate and blame. Remember that you have the power to change the word with positivity, not hate.

]]>Work Hard and Dream Bighttp://sabrinalloydagencies.org/work-hard-and-dream-big/
Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:16:17 +0000http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/?p=44In order to accomplish great things, you must first visualize big things. Without a solid plan and visualization, your goals are just daydreams, which rarely produce lasting results. Usually, daydreams do not include the working hard aspect associated with actually accomplishing a goal. For example, some will dream of owning a boat one day but don’t take the time to plan out how they focus in their career in order to actually afford the boat. It is essential to reprogram your mind to achieve positive behavior. One a goal is visualized, take the necessary actionable steps in order to reach this goal.

Just as if you see yourself as a winner and you’ll be a winner, if you see yourself as a failure, you’ll also be a failure. Without realizing it, we emulate our own images of ourselves. One of my favorite quotes is the following:

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words;

watch your words, they become your actions;

watch your actions, they become habits;

watch your habits, they become character;

watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

– Frank Outlaw

Looking at great leaders in the past, we can see that they did not see things as they were but rather as they wanted them to be. If Martin Luther King never dreamed that his children would go to amusements parks with other children or sit in restaurants, he never would have shared his dream with many listeners who had accepted unfair conduct. His dream was a visualization and he shared this with many.

If you are able to change your vision and picture what you want to see, you are on the right track. If you were to write a book on how to achieve a dream, the first chapter would be about building the mind. the next chapter could be about health and fitness. Organize the chapters into a compilation that will guide you to completing your dream. Write it down. Write down the outline of these chapters. After you write it and get it out of your head and on paper, you will be more likely to act it out and make it happen.
Dream it. Write it. Do it. Believe in yourself.

Not everyone would think of forgiveness as something necessary to improve oneself. It is likely that in all relationships, at one point or another, one will feel pain, disappointment, hurt, embarrassment or even shame. This occurs in relationships of all sorts, romantic or not. Anger is a secondary emotion. No one feels angry first but rather anger is a reaction to an event. For example, if your manager implies that you are inadequate in front of others at your company, first you might feel embarrassed. Then, you become angry. But, forgiving your manager is important. Let’s dig deeper.

Forgiveness is important for personal growth.

Refusing to forgive someone can deter you from your own goals. If you are angry with someone, the anger tends to consume your thoughts, leaving no room for personal growth thoughts. Continuing with the manager example, you may feel negatively towards your job after this public remark. You may neglect your tasks because of your emotional state. For as long as the issue goes unresolved, the anger will remain, giving your manager total control over you! Suppressing your emotions will only cause these emotions to be expressed negatively and even at people who were not even part of the situation.

Creating a forgiveness list helps identify those you need to forgive.

Rank the list of people from most important to least important. Write the reason you need to forgive each person. Each person you do not forgive gets a certain amount of control. Until you learn to forgive the person, that part of you will be lost. Keep in mind forgiveness is a process and not something that happens overnight. But forgiveness is the key to your own happiness.

Forgiving frees you from the past.

Unfortunately it is way too easy for the past to bling your current world of opportunities everywhere. But forgiveness helps to close those chapters of your past. Just because one manager treated you badly, does not mean that all your future managers will. Life can be hard enough; there is no need for excess baggage, which unfortunately can be a default reaction and thus it takes action to get rid of it.

And finally, forgiving prepares you for more meaningful relationships.

Once you are freed from the past, you are ready to develop as a person, which means fostering new, healthy relationships, or repairing the old ones. Once you understand where your feelings are coming from, you can work on repairing the relationship. If the relationship is beyond repair, at least you will feel peace within and won’t feel the need to lash out unexpectedly. And this is why forgiveness is about you. You forgive so that you can be a better version of yourself. Get your power back through forgiveness.

]]>Getting Motivated!http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/getting-motivated/
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:18:17 +0000http://sabrinalloydagencies.org/?p=34Sometimes life presents itself with a variety of challenges. Staying motivated to achieve your hopes and dreams is crucial in actually achieving them. Inside of everyone is the potential for greatness when we remove our self-imposed success limitations and open up all self starting greatness. A great factor to have is a soundtrack to motivate you, and can send you on your way to achieving your goals.

The keys to resetting a motivational mindset, begins with something as simple as finding something better. Find that one favorite thing (or song in this case) and turn it up! Don’t spend time searching for something and just settling on something that seems to be good. Listen to what IS good.

As simple as singing a favorite song can be something that can take you there. Don’t declare that “I can’t sing”, keep on singing! Make it your own no matter how off key it may sound. If it mentally puts you in the right spot it’s doing it’s job. Take Bob Dylan for example, as iconic as he is, his singing is far from perfect, it helped make his songs, HIS songs.

Now that you got your song to sing, why not dance to it? Motion might be the most motivating thing there is. Take a sporting event for example, the game is getting tense, and the score is close, what does everyone do once the action breaks? They stand up and dance! They cheer, they sing, they don’t just sit there and sulk. The fans are charged up and the players (for the home team at least) are all fired up. Even you can motivate the team while in the crowd!

Finding the proper motivation is a journey. While, it won’t solve all of your problems it can help promote self-discovery, seek out truer meaning, deeper truth, and insightful enlightenment. A thing to remember is this: You are not alone, when you listen to a song that motivates you, you are there with the composer every sept of the way. You are in the company of those who were determined doers who held onto their dreams. Even with times get tough you have to keep the faith, realize that a victory is right around the corner!

Music is a wonderful thing, and a crucial motivation tool. Keep the faith and remember, if your energy level is running low, that special song or playlist will always be there to motivate, encourage, and inspire you. Afterall, you are the superstar who’s about to sink that three-pointer with 0:00 on the clock!